Quotes About Satisfaction

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

Is it enough for people to simply enjoy their work without finding it meaningful or being passionate about it? I think it is. In fact, I would prefer to completely rid the concept of meaningful work as the gold standard, and replace it with a new one: doing satisfying work that meet one's needs.

When you're in between dreams, you get to lean back and relax and stop trying so hard. Trying to be somebody, I mean. It's not as exciting as being a television star, but it's not that bad, either. You just have to learn to be satisfied with the way you are for a while. Not Forever. Just until you're finished resting.

But it's a good feeling and one does so like to have that.

Later that evening, as we sat in the garden having drinks, I caught Harry looking at me with a kind of doggy devotion in his eyes. I leaned back in my chair, well satisfied, both with my drink in such pleasant surroundings and with his devotion. It seemed like a balm to heal the little wound inflicted by Piers's unkindness.

quando em quais serão minhas companhias no inferno, sinto-me razoavelmente satisfeita de ir pra lá. Estará cheio de pessoas que amei de verdade.

quando penso em quais serão minhas companhias no inferno, sinto-me razoavelmente satisfeita de ir pra lá. Estará cheio de pessoas que amei de verdade.

Although it may not seem finished to anyone else, it's finished to you. It's your project. You did it by choice. You have the right to decide when you're done.

What you're really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.

When you lose interest in something, you must always consider the possibility that you've gotten what you came for; you have completed your mission.

You see, you're not someone without direction; you're an investigator, and the whole investigative process consists of learning a little bit about everything that looks interesting to you. If you respect your natural curiosity, you'll come to trust your enthusiasm. It knows something about you. Your trail of enthusiasms is the most precise instrument you have for locating where you'd find the deepest satisfaction in your life.

What do I need to have in my life to feel deeply satisfied? What do I know in my heart is keeping me from feeling satisfied and successful? What situations, relationships, beliefs, attitudes, thoughts, feelings, and choices have I made that are no longer serving me? If I had a year to live, where would I be? Who would I be with? What would I be doing?

the whole loaf.

You may produce lunch two hours late, but you make it worth the eating, Janie.

Cornwallis was a man who could have thrust his hand in a flame if necessary, but not a man to organize the logistics and arrangements of a large campaign with a likely risk of failure. The smooth face in the Gainsborough portrait with no lines of thought or of frowns or of laughter—with no lines at all—tells as much. It is a face composed by a life of comfort and satisfaction without any need of desperate attempts. As

Remember that the true pleasures of life consist in the exertion of our own powers. If you were to feast every day upon roasted partridges from off Dresden china, and dip your whiskers in syllabubs and creams, it could never give you such true enjoyment as the commonest food procured by the labor of your own paws.

Much has been said of the uses of history. They are no doubt many, yet do not apply equally to all: but it is quite sufficient to make it a study worth our pains and time, that it satisfies the desire which naturally arises in every intelligent mind to know the transactions of the country, of the globe in which he lives. Facts, as facts, interest our curiosity and engage our attention.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

Life's too short. Start with Dessert!

Less than I want. More than I deserve.

There had been studies years ago that showed that when you presented consumers with multifarious choices—like, say, fifteen different types and brands of jelly—they had a harder time deciding, took longer to make up their minds, and were less satisfied with their ultimate selection than those who'd chosen from a narrower band of options. Elayah feared buying the wrong jelly. Only the jelly was her life.

Focus on what makes you happy, and do what gives meaning to your life

The secret to happiness is low expectations.

The alternative to maximizing is to be a satisficer. To satisfice is to settle for something that is good enough and not worry about the possibility that there might be something better.